The Veil

written in December '23

does day destroy the night?

does night divide the day?

 

or is this a prehistoric

view of material existence

on a planet they didn’t know

was rounded out, smoothed over

by the four fundamental forces?

 

knowledge unattainable by a

collective mind that hadn’t

evolved far enough yet to

grasp those hanging threads,

to chase those deer trails…

 

and metaphor or not,

there’s a veil that can’t

seem to be pierced…

 

and if it can be pierced,

it only leads to another veil,

as if the velvet can be cut

only to find a veil of iron…

 

and the literary nerds

and the music nerds

would get that reference

and call me a thief anyway…

 

regardless, the apologists

further in the background

smirk simply, smugly…

 

god of the gaps indeed…

 

physics at the atomic level

gave Newton the finger when

two slits were imposed upon it…

 

are the non-believers

really in the wrong?

 

are they really agnostics and

the theologians, artists and

philosophers of old correct?

 

but even in the hours before

daylight appears, we know

the sun rises in the east

just because of the way

the planet rotates…

 

our senses work despite

how imperfect and deceptive

they can be…

 

what other options do we have?

 

seeing is believing,

the main door of

perception after all